Cosgrove’s is one of Sligo’s oldest shops and was first opened as a restaurant/shop in 1898 by Michael Cosgrove senior. His son Kevin took over the business and expanded the range of food and was in fact the first person to sell ice cream in Sligo. It’s now run by Kevin’s son Michael Cosgrove with the help of Pauline.

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.6 km
Link: https://magnumlady.com/2014/07/11/sligo-shops-m-cosgrove-and-son-delicatessen/

The Coleman Traditional Irish Music Centre is a celebration of Irish Music, Culture and Heritage as expressed in the South Sligo Style of music played by Michael Coleman and other musicians of his time.  This community based enterprise in Gurteen, Co.Sligo, Ireland is dedicated to ensuring that the tradition of Irish music remains a living one 'an traidisiún beo' and that it continues to be enjoyed by all ages and nationalities.

The Coleman Music Centre features three main attractions: the Coleman Cottage and Archive, which remembers the past, the Music School which, builds for the future and lastly the Visitors Centre and Theatre which celebrates the tradition. The South Sligo area has produced many of the finest traditional musician. None so famous as the legendary Michael Coleman, known for his distinct South Sligo style of playing.

The theatre can accommodate 150 people seated and is also used to facilitate Ceili nights and exhibitions by writers, painters, craftsmen and craftswomen in the locality.  A series of concerts will be run over the Summer months which will feature the finest living exponents of traditional music, including many artists from abroad.  The theatre also houses an audiovisual display on South Sligo: it's music and the life of Michael Coleman.

Distance from St Angela’s: 45 km
Link: http://www.colemanirishmusic.com/

The Ulster Bank (co-ordinates 54.27250 -8.47400) is a fine detached five-bay two-storey sandstone ashlar classically-styled bank, was designed by James Hamilton architects of Belfast and Glasgow and was built in 1863.

One of the more notable features of this building, which occupies its commanding position at this busy junction in Stephen Street is its rich ashlar Scottish sandstone.

The appearance of the building is enlivened by the high quality stone masonry which has decorative artistic detailing. The bank is significant, attesting to the prosperity of Sligo town in the late nineteenth century.

The Ulster Bank building was 'bombed to ruins' during the Irish Civil War but was rebuilt soon after.

In front of the Ulster Bank stands Sligo's most popular, and most photographed tourist attraction. A statue depicting the world-renowned poet William Butler Yeats 'wrapt in his words'.

 
Distance from St Angela’s: 7.0 km
Link: http://www.sligotown.net/the-ulster-bank.shtml

• Tobernalt became a secluded refuge for the celebration of Mass in the early years of the eighteenth century when the penal laws were applied most harshly.
• It was to Tobernalt the people flocked from the surrounding neighbourhood when news spread by word of mouth that the Priest was expected. Priests were hunted with a price on their heads; they travelled in disguise through the country from one Mass rock to the next
• The history of Tobernalt Holy Well predates the advent of Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century. It is a natural spring well that established itself in a primeval forest. When the Celts settled, Tobernalt quickly became the main area where the festival of Lughanasa, the harvest festival, was celebrated.
• Historically, 1921 was the year when the first mass was celebrated at Tobernalt since penal times. With the exception of 1922, when mass was cancelled due to activities associated with the Civil War in the area, mass has been celebrated on every Garland Sunday since 1921.
  
  

Distance from St Angela’s: 13.3 km
Link: http://www.holywellsligo.com/index.html

• St John’s Cathedral of Sligo Town dates from the mid-18th century, though it is located on the site of a 13th-century hospital and parish. The cathedral’s west tower is thought to contain remnants of the original structures.
• Renowned architect Richard Cassels designed the present cathedral, taking inspiration from early-Roman style basilicas. The structure, however, was significantly altered in the 19th century, as the original Romanesque windows were replaced and the chancel was extended.
• St John’s, which was elevated from church to cathedral in 1961, also has a connection to the famous Yeats family.
• The parents of W.B. Yeats married there in 1863, while the grave of his maternal grandparents is located near the west door of the church. There are memorials to various family members within the house of worship as well.

Distance from St Angela’s: 8.0 km
Link: http://sligocathedral.elphin.anglican.org/

• Detached seven-bay two-storey Lombardo Romanesque palazzo-style town hall, built c. 1865, returning nine-bays to south, with central single-bay break-front, three-stage square-plan clock tower to north-east
• Extensively restored and rennovated, c. 1998, with additon of five-bay three-storey extension to north elevation.
• Sligo Town Hall was designed by the Dublin architect William Hague and was built by the Dublin firm OF Crowe and Brothers for the sum of £5,000. Crowe and Brothers were no strangers to Sligo Town, having just finished construction of Sligo Railway Station.
• The Harbour Commissioners had the Clock Tower erected at a cost of £975 pounds by local builder Patrick Morris. The Clock Tower afforded the Harbour Master an impressive view of the harbour so as to monitor the progress of shipping entering and leaving the harbour, whilst housing a bell provided by Council member Charles Anderson.
• The bell, Anderson's Bell as it became known, weighed 812 kg, is 1050mm in diameter and is engraved with the harp, shamrock and crown insignia.
• Today it is much improved, thanks to a multi-million Euro refurbishment which was completed in 2000 and which renewed the Town Hall to its former glory, thus restoring its rightful place as the civic centre of Sligo Town.
  
  

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.3
Link: http://www.sligotown.net/sligo-town-hall.shtml

• The Manse, situated beside the Library, was built in 1867, and was converted into the Sligo County Museum (admission free) in 1955.
• The Sligo County Museum contains a fascinating collection of exhibits detailing Sligo's rich stone-age history, including a large firkin of 100-year-old bog butter.
• The Yeats Room here is full of manuscripts, photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings associated with the local poet William Butler Yeats including a copy of his 1923 Nobel Prize winning medal and a complete collection of his poems from 1889 to 1936.
• Also in the museum you will see paintings by Irish artists George Russell, Sean Keating and Jack. B. Yeats, brother of the poet William Butler Yeats.
• There is also a display of artefacts and memorabilia associated with Countess Constance Markievicz and her sister Eva Gore-Booth.

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.1km
Link: http://www.sligoarts.ie/VenuesProfile/SligoCountyMuseum/

• In September 1880 Sligo Library was declared open in the Town Hall.
• The library today is located in a Gothic Revival Church which was converted in 1954 into the Sligo Town Library.
• In the first report from the librarian David Saultry, it is stated that the book stocks were at the 1,200 mark and that an average of 110 persons were using the service daily.
• It has expanded greatly over the years and now has a total membership of over 23,000 and a book stock of almost 125,000.
  
  

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.1km
Link: http://www.sligolibrary.ie/

Construction of the gaol began in 1814 and it was ready for partial occupation in 1818, at a cost of £22,000 for the initial building. The total cost for the whole gaol construction was £30,000.

Additions to the building included the building of a treadmill and improvements to the Marshalsea (debtor’s prison).

The gaol was built by local builder John Lynn.  It was designed to hold 200 inmates in a polygonal-shaped building, with the Governor's residence situated in the centre of the prison.

At the height of the famine, there were 291 inmates recorded in the gaol and this is the highest ever recorded in the history in the prison. Of those prisoners fifty-five were awaiting transportation to Australia, one hundred and forty-four were under sentence, fifty-three were awaiting trial, there were three recorded as lunatics and eighteen debtors.

In 1918, Michael Collins was held in the Gaol after making a speech against conscription to the British army.  In his prison diary his recurrent observation is that he could not sleep and ‘must get this wretched mattress changed’. He also records that ‘by standing on my table I can see Knocknareagh.’

Distance from St Angela’s: 8.2 km
Link: https://www.sligogaol.ie/general

• Sligo Courthouse (co-ordinates 54.26990 -8.47190) was built in 1878 on the site of a former courthouse, part of which has been retained as a link with Sligo's turbulent past.
• This fine building which was officially opened on February 26th 1879, comprises an arcaded main entrance with three front arches leading directly into the hall, a turreted breakfront and an octagonal ventilation tower with its elaborate pointed roof and dormers rises to an impressive 110 foot above street level.
• The architect of Sligo Courthouse was J. Rawson Carroll, a consultant architect from Dublin who had previously designed Classibawn Castle in Mullaghmore, with the construction work being carried out by Patrick Morris of Union Place in Sligo Town.
• The exterior of Sligo Courthouse was built largely of sandstone which had been brought in from the quarries of Mountcharles in County Donegal, and has been described as "a full-blooded Victorian Gothic building" which include a number of exterior features being modelled on those of the Law Courts of London.
• Parts of an eighteenth century gaol still survive within the confines of The Courthouse, with a history which includes that of eight men who, in 1818, were sentenced for robbery with violence at Tireragh and were publicly hanged in the street outside the front of the courthouse.
  
  

Distance from St Angela’s: 7.7 km
Link: http://www.sligotown.net/sligo-courthouse.shtml